Today I explore some of those little journalism jewels on the newswires that likely won’t make a big splash.

In Mount Comfort, Ind., three state highway workers were cleaning up litter in a ditch. In an abandoned tire they found $100,000. They turned it over to authorities and a drug-sniffing dog found the scent of drugs on the bills.

The story was very brief. It didn’t say what prompted these workers to be so honest. Was someone looking over their shoulders? Was it unanimous among the three that the money be turned in? Are they just that blatantly honest? What would Jesus do? What would you do?

Indeed this was a real novelty. My guess is, money has never been found before in an abandoned tire. And police commended the workers for their honesty.

And when you read a story like this, you’ve got to think of a TV script in the making. Now if this was dirty money, one must imagine the mob was involved and a body was also found somewhere in another ditch that might be a cause-and-effect scenario.

This script could be serious or it could be a comedy. As a comedy, I could see Danny DeVito involved.

I don’t know exactly what the law says about finding money in old tires in ditches. I’ll have to look it up. I do know that in Tennessee, if you run over a deer or a possum with your car, you can keep the road kill.

So now every time you drive along the highway and see a tire in a ditch, I’m betting you will think of this story.. And once again you will ask yourself what you would do. I think a lot of people would have kept the money and bought a lot of stuff for cash. I doubt seriously, though, many folks will stop and check out abandoned tires.

Then comes another interesting item from Chicago where a 14-year-old boy who wants to be a cop got himself a uniform, went into a police station and managed to get himself assigned to duty. Sometime during the day, the real officer he was patrolling with noticed that his uniform did not include a star that is on all Chicago patrolmen’s uniforms. Authorities are calling this a serious security breach.

Ya think!

My first thoughts were that the real cop might have noticed that the young man had not started shaving and was not wearing a gun. I think that could be called evidence, particularly in this venue.

It was determined that there was no malice involved in the issue. He was charged with impersonating an officer, but he did not issue any tickets nor did he make any arrests. He also didn’t drive the squad car. And obviously, he didn’t shoot anyone.

As you can imagine, this could only happen in a large city. In a small town, someone would have known this boy’s mama. Again, I can see TV script written all over this. And certainly it would be a comedy, even if they tried to make it serious. What I mean is, the real cop had probably eaten doughnuts older that this kid.

So what about it? If you find $100,000 in an abandoned tire, what will be your first impulse? Jesus could have turned it into a much larger amount to be applied to the bailout of the money changers.

(Dwain Walden is editor/publisher of The Moultrie Observer. E-mail: dwain.walden@gaflnews.com)